Cl. 384
Attack on the Castle of Love; knights in armour standing before a lady; courting couple (meeting of lovers) on the battlements; knight chucking his lover under the chin.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Foliated corner terminals.
Du Sommerard 1883: 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, mid 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
No trace of polychromy (Cascio-Lévy unpublished report, 2002).
Reverse
Inventory number inscribed in black ink. Also in black ink, '227' in the centre and, in the upper part, '196' (crossed out).
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Du Sommerard: acquired for the Museum in 1843.
Bibliography
F. Séré and P. Lacroix, Le Moyen-Age et la Renaissance, 5 vols, (Paris, 1848-1861), II, pl. V.
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1069.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 409; II, no. 1104.
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